#fiction

She was going to go home after this and sip red wine and stare at the wall, I could tell. She would wonder why she was doing this, struggling against commercial interests at a corporate hospital when all she wanted to do was help people, and in the morning, when she walked out of her beautiful home and unlocked her convertible, she would remember. ↗

— Max Berry

#fiction #beauty

What comes from the heart will go to the heart ↗

— Renae Lucas-Hall

#japan #love-story #romance #tokyo #love

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#alone #away #being #carried #danger

I wondered whose job it was to blow sunshine into my ears. ↗

— B.V. Larson

#science

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction. ↗

— Alexandra Kerry

#century #cumulative #fiction #great #image

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction. ↗

— Yann Martel

#book #fiction #flip #idea #me

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies. ↗

— Rob Morrow

#fiction #i #learned #lot #morality

The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#fiction #writing #beauty

Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?' Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#ivy #jenks #rachel-morgan #romance #supernatural

But I understood, now, that we don’t live only for ourselves. We’re connected by millions of shared experiences and dreams and nightmares, all tied together with compassion. I learned that even when we’re going through our darkest winter, spring is waiting to appear. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#grief #healing #laura-anderson-kurk #love #romance